author: j. d. salinger
completion date: 26/07/10
method: borrowed (mum)
there is something that i love about the physicality of salinger's books. for one, they are the perfect size to hold in your hand and they don't weigh down your bag. the covers are simple and almost always one colour with maybe a couple of stripes. i always think this is a silly thing to talk about but at the same time its so important.
salinger has this incredible talent for making his main character pretty unlikeable but totally relatable. i remember the first time i read catcher in the rye i really didn't like the main boy until the end. zooey is kind of an ass, but he has good reason to be one. he feels at first like a pompous prick and franny seems to be unnecessarily hysterical over something and in typical salinger fashion, it isn't until the very end that there is resolution. in this book it seems to come so late too, there isn't any sense of resolution until the very last paragraph.
this book is so wonderful because it all takes place over a matter of hours. almost what would be a moment. the beginning (the franny part) is like a preface, or really the inciting incident and the zooey part is the reaction. its such a simple way of structuring a really beautifully executed novel. i found that i didn't want to put this one down at all because i figured: if the book takes place in only a couple of hours then i should be able to follow along in read time. maybe unreasonable, but i loved every moment and found myself wanting more and more
xo-ellebee
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